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Yesterday we identified an issue with auto update to Opera 19. There was a risk that modified Speed Dials would be reset to default ones. We’ve fixed it and now you can safely update to the latest Opera version.

My version 18 got updated yesterday to 19.0.1326.47 when I restarted the browser, speed dial looks as usual. Now I see another update prompt in the bottom Windows 7 task bar, is this obsolete now?

Forgot to mention that I always get this error message when checking the version number in Opera, although that version is already installed: Version: 19.0.1326.47 – Beim Prüfen auf Updates ist ein Fehler aufgetreten

blackcoder

The newest stable version should now be “19.0.1326.56”. Looks like there is a problem with your install.

Vux777

they published .47 yesterday, and .56 today
some bug with auto-update was in .47

nanana1

One of the quickest update to a final version release, the code vigilance certainly needs tightening. 🙁

Cryio

What?

operabrowser021

What About Opera Link? It Still Is The Feature I Really Miss:(

blackcoder

It is not finished yet. They had to “restart” the development of it, because their first solution didn’t worked out as far as i know. Maybe restart is a to drastic word.

INFINUM

opera://flags/#sync

ga_pechorin

will you keep with this chrome skin thing much longer or can we expect to get back the best browser ever made again?
its ridiculous how many things do i miss whenever i decide to give you another chance…

when you look at opera 20, I’d say by next decade !
opera 20 highlights:

Extensions chrome.downloads API (DNA-13993)……. (Chrome’s)
Drag tabs onto the bookmarks bar (DNA-12485)
Confirm exit when using Command–Q (DNA-12338) (Mac only)
…. etc
and talking about power users options : hide the google search (ad) bar, and choose the number of thumbnails on the speeddial !!! which was available for everyone in opera 12, and didn’t hear anyone complaining about it.
and that’s what we will have after 12 weeks ! so yeah.
The best thing of the Chropera is the support of chrome’s extensions ! and having their own servers (don’t want my data on google’s servers).

anyway, still using it and loving it, don’t know why !

Reinis

…and Gandalf said: “Dragonfly where are you?”

oic

Is there a way to import speed dial folders to bookmark bar?

BK

“Remove duplicate Tabs open?” – there are extensions for that.

there is no support to move folders to bookmarks bar, but you can do that with single SD’s after turning on flag opera://flags/#speed-dial-native-dnd

AquilaWhite

please add the option for setting specific options(javascript, flashh, iframe ecc….) for each site 😀

Damn, i was thinking that I know all stupid regressions in new Chropera. Now I see that new Opera don’t have Master Password. OMG, why?

nimuchan

Thank you very much!
bookmark manager is an better!

Tiago

Opera is getting better… but I still missing Dragonfly. I still use 12.16 most of the day for working, but it crashes me a few times a day and simple closes itself. Sometimes it doesn’t even opens after @ OS X Mavericks.

I don’t like Chrome dev tools… and I do even like the fact I can modify “source code” and check the results with old Opera – it’s useful sometimes.

Is any of this going to back to Opera at all?

J Mercado

Opera 19 stable is very good and also begs two questions: how to import bookmarks from legacy, Opera 12 director to “Quick Access” bar / appropriate folder; how to save + export Speed Dial settings.
Gracias

There is an Opera menu option “More tools”, and one of them is “Import Bookmarks” which will actually import the old v12 bookmarks, even if you have uninstalled it long ago. You can even decide which folders and single bookmarks you want to import and enable the Bookmarks bar in the browser settings then.

Your speed dial thumbnails should have been imported automatically when installing the new version.

when you reload a tab and try to switch to another one by clicking on it you have to click twice.

W8.1×64

Piotr Karol Żółtowski

Master Password to protect passwords, please?

IEuser

Extension installation fails (looks like installation in progress but never finished) when Opera executable is loaded from path where a “directory” on parent path is a junction point (form of folder symbolic links with absolute path).

My configuration on multiboot system with mixture of Windows Vista and Windows 7 32 and 64 bit is:
1. real applications on separated multipurpose volume
2. volume mounted to the file system only as mount point which behaves as junction point to the file system (mountvol )
3. subfolder with 32-bit applications on the mount point linked to folder structure on same volume as junction point (mklink /J )
4. selected appliacations linked to the “%ProgramFiles%” on 32-bit systems xor %ProgramFiles(x86)%” on 64-bit systems as junction point

So in my case the Opera is located at “C:Program FilesOpera Chromium”, where “Opera Chromium” is a junction point to the “D:Shared Apps 32-bitOpera Chromium”, where “Shared Apps 32-bit” is a junction point to the “D:PartitionsStorageShared Apps32-bit” where “Storage” is a mount point to the \?Volume{Volume_GUID}. In that case a installation of the extensions fails but installation of themes not.

This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?
But seriously, it’s a little funny and sad at the same time, that some people are so confused, that they couldn’t have their favourite browser for their favourite operating system.

szawe

I came here just to say that I go back to using chrome. This happens for many reasons. One of them is the lack of any consistency in functionality planning: speed dial (although it is a thing I will miss most), stash, bookmarks bar are all useless for far too long time, basic bookmarks functionality is way too fragmented. For too long I can not set custom search engine and the most important of all is that you stopped working on a linux version. I installed Opera 15 with the faith that one day I will be able to use it on all of my systems. I did it partially against myself – using different browsers on different systems is very uncomfortable. Maybe in a year or two I will think again about using opera, but at the current rate of development I’m sceptical. All this is just my personal opinion and personal experience with the new opera, I wonder if there are more users in a similar situation who have already changed to using another browser or will do so in the near future.

LoE

Why has the search language for the built in Wikipedia search engine (w) suddenly changed from English to, in my case, Norwegian? I use English as user interface language both in the browser and the OS. It should be pretty darn obvious I want to use English when searching too, not the language of the location I’m in. Hopefully it is a bug, and not another stupid thing that makes Opera harder to be the choice for web browsing. And yes I know how to make a custom search.

The download manager is still appearing even if the list is empty. After clearing the downloads the download manager should dissapear, but it doesnt. You need to restart the browser that the download manager to be gone. Here is a print: http://s24.postimg.org/nqrum5mfp/download.jpg

Utkarsh

Hello everyone,

I am here to ask for a little help, I don’t know if it is the right place to ask. My Opera doesn’t auto update, I don’t know why and I have been facing this problem with stable, developer and next versions of Opera. I have to download the offline everytime for the new version.

On About Opera page it says “An error occurred while checking for updates”

utksingh

Vux777

maybe your firewall is blocking opera_autoupdate.exe?
there was a problems last week with stable build and auto-update, but don’t think with that kind of msg error

Utkarsh

Thanks for responding back. If the firewall is the main cause then how can I sort it out? I am using ESET smart security.

Vux777

try to follow this steps and in the last one (step 7), choose opera_autoupdate.exe in your Opera installation folder.

Thanks again. The ESET page that you mentioned should resolve the issue but it didn’t. Also this time I am providing you with the screenshot of ABOUT page.
By the way where else should I consider posting the problem?
Thanks again. Hats off to you! Thanks for help.

Vux777

I also have the same error when my firewall is blocking autoupdate (and I want that ツ ). When I let it through, Opera checks newest version just fine…Ofc. it can be tons of other stuff, but I still think your ESET is main reason for this.
If you can, try turning off (quit) all ESET tools (fw, AV…) just for a moment and then start Opera to see will it check for update (it should also start faster).
ZoneAlarm and ESET are not very much in love with Opera. I know for ZA from my own experience, and for ESET from others.
If error still persist… sry… reinstall maybe?!

Utkarsh

I believe you are right. And yes, ESET interferes with many programs including IDM.

Leonardo Gomes

I got that message sometimes but Opera updates sooner or later.

As said, check your firewall, AV or anything that may be blocking Opera from checking for updates.

Utkarsh

Thanks for responding back Leonardo. I waited for many days to see if Opera would do the auto update but it didn’t. Google Chrome and Firefox do the auto update without any issue. I don’t think firewall is causing the issue, by the way I am using ESET Smart security and I don’t know how should I check if it is really preventing Opera.
Your further help will be appreciated.

Leonardo Gomes

I don’t use ESET or any outgoing firewall so i guess i will not be able to help.

Try Vux777 tip and/or try to find a way to put the autoupdater on a whitelist.

Utkarsh

No worries. 🙂 But if you come across any other ways to resolve the issue please reply.

Leonardo Gomes

If you disable EST for a while an try to update Opera, does it works?

Utkarsh

No, it does not. 🙂

Leonardo Gomes

So maybe ESET is not the one to blame.

Do you use any extension in Opera?

Utkarsh

Yes, I use two extensions: Adblockplus and WOT. But disabling them even doesn’t work.

Sumit Malwadkar

Just go to About Opera, and it will automatically update you to latest version.

Utkarsh

Dear Sumit,
Thanks for giving your attention to my problem. But what you mentioned doesn’t really work? I am wondering if you have some more time to review my topic from the start. Thanks in advance!

I just deleted my MyOpera account, if gave me problems since first day, somehow you got to link old bookmarks of an older account to this one so it was always an issue. Now I want to use my Facebook for sync and it seems this stupid account will haunt me forever.

Explain to me why am I forced to use that account, or how long do I have to wait before it is actually deleted from your servers, I already got rid of it, unless you just lied to me.

Kevin Hickey

I’m running Version 12 and when I check for updates, it says I have the latest version. When I install 19, 12 is still there.

Vux777

12 and 15+ (presto and blink) are two different streams.
12 will never (probably) update to new Opera

Kevin Hickey

Thanks. It would be nice if they informed people about this.

Leonardo Gomes

They did it.

gdv

I love the steady progress and the regular updates. THANKS!!!

But I would still like to see each and every post announcing a new release specifically indicate the version number of the release, and each released version number to have its own entry in the cumulative changelog.

Neither v19.0.1326.47 (presumably released with the Jan. 28, 2014 “Opera 19 is going stable!” blog post) nor v19.0.1326.56 (presumably released with this Jan. 20, 2014 “Opera 19 auto update is back again” blog post) are included in the changelog (https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/changelog19/). Nor is either specific version number included in the blog post title that announced the release.

This really makes it confusing and time-consuming for someone who can’t be here every single day to monitor each of the releases and their respective changelogs. Fortunately other posters early in both of the above blog post threads mentioned specific download version numbers (missing from the changelog) that helped to sort it out… …but it’s a PITA to have to sort it out when it could so easily be included in the documentation for EVERY release.

(1) the version number was included in the title of EACH blog post announcing EVERY new release [e.g., “Opera 19 is going stable! (19.0.1326.47)” and “Opera 19 auto update is back again (19.0.1326.56)”,

(2) EVERY release was included in the cumulative changelog (including those after a major version goes “Stable”), and

(3) if the date of each release was included in the changelog next to each release.

This seems to have some days now, but with the latest 19.0.1326.59 release Opera has gone completely mental.
I get random crashes even when doing nothing. I use very few tabs at the same time, but Opera 19.0.1326.59 is completely out of itself. I repeat, it crashes doing NOTHING!

Please, Opera team, don’t take this the wrong way, I appreciate your hard work and all, but please, get on developing the old Opera (12). I know I can still use it, but I need to have another browser because it is so outdated it can’t show every site.
Opera Next is the worst browser I’ve ever tried. Really, ever. I believe IE5 is more stable.
I was a big Opera fan, I always said every other browser was crap, because they lacked functionality everywhere. I kept on telling my friends to use Opera, and every single one that tried never went back.
Nowadays I can’t say that anymore, it would make me look like a retard, going around recommending the worst browser ever.
Please, bring back the best browser, that you used to make, and ditch this terrible, terrible project.
I trust the Opera team, and I hope Next will get better, but it just gets worse every time. I think it’s time to give up and keep on developing the good one and throw to the garbage Opera Next, where it belongs.
Why I don’t use other browser? Because IE is terrible, Chrome is stupid, Firefox is idiotic and Safari is moronic. And because I tried Opera, and until version 12 was the best thing the internet could offer. I can’t settle for less now.
I hope not to offend anyone with this (my) opinion. And I hope I can still use Opera, but I am seriously considering uninstalling it. The only reason I don’t do that is because the others are garbage as well (even though they may be stable, which Opera is not).

Vux777

I don’t remember when Opera (as app) crashed. In some!!! builds there was repetitive page!! crashing, but those were dev channel builds and that doesn’t happening for couple of months.
There is a lots of reasons why users should be mad on new Opera, but stability (app crashing) is not one of them.

Juan

Well, I wish you could see last night, I just had my Twitter account open, and it kept restarting itself over and over again.
Oh, and I wasn’t using the browser either, it was minimized. I was watching a movie in MPC-HC and it kept getting out of full screen because of constant Opera random restarts.
Build 19.0.1326.59 (latest “stable” available). And I use quotes because this is not even good for an alpha version.
By the way, I’m running a clean Win7 x64 (installed 1 month ago) and I’m not a rookie user, so I’d know if the problem is from my OS.

Also, if you read below, you’ll see plenty of crashing reports, although I couldn’t say how their OS’ conditions are, and if it is or it isn’t Opera’s fault. I can say it with my own though.

Oh, please excuse my english if it is not proper, since it’s not my primary language.

Vux777

I understand you are not a rookie, but many experienced users slips some details/logic that turns out to bothers them.
In your other post you were mentioning YT problems.
I have 3y. old comp with mobile net (hsdpa usb stick) and no problems with loading YT pages.
So my guess is either you Firewall is making those problems, or some extension…. or some malware.
If you have clean Win install, and clean Opera install (with extensions) those things should’t be happening. Latest Opera Stable, even NEXT and DEV builds are very solid as app’s (lack of features is different subject).
On my system, Opera is super fast in rendering pages, opening tabs, very responsive etc…. (closing tabs sucks sometimes, it’s delayed, probably because of Blink architecture).
And nothing special about my system..AMD 3.3 Ghz with 6 Gb ram, win7 x64
So you should really check other things on your system (Firewall, anti-virus program, maybe some exotic extensions…).
…and your English is fine, I’m worried about mine…also not my native language, plus during my education I was learning German lang….never English ….
Probably many guys here when reading my posts think “what an arrogant ass”…and in fact, I just want to be simple, short and direct ツ

Juan

Thanks for your reply, I think your english is fine as well, and I don’t find your posts arrogant, I find them helpful.
I tried disabling every extension I have (not much though, Adblock and Bookmarks Manager (I hate the fact Opera Next doesn’t have bookmarks anymore).
Sadly, disabling them doesn’t make a difference. I’m not using third-party firewall or antivirus, just windows built-in firewall and Microsoft Security Essentials as AV. I trust more in myself than in any software in that matter.
Weird thing is old Opera 12 works fine, and previous Opera 19 built worked really fast and clean (even though I find lots of deficiencies in the soft itself compared to the old Opera 12 as I stated in my first post). I was getting used to it fine, but now I find myself struggling. I guess I’ll keep trying or I’ll wait for a new build.
Greetings from Argentina!

Juan

Another issue I have, and I detected last night:
I thought it was completely impossible to get to YouTube with Opera 19.0.1326.59.

It turns out it is possible, but it takes several minutes for Opera to load YouTube properly. FIrst it will take some time, but load it, but the pointer freezes for a couple of minutes and nothing is functional.
Then, if you’re patient enough (I wasn’t, I kept closing it) it will work.
I admit my internet is not the fastest (6 mbps) and my PC is quite old (around 5 years)… but with the previous Opera build I was flying compared to this one (even though I didn’t love it).

Leonardo Gomes

I’ve just tested here and had no problems loading YT page and/or playing videos.

Check extensions, if the case, AV and any other software that may be interering with Opera.

Juan

Thanks for your input, Leonardo!
I tried disabling extensions, one by one and all together, but doesn’t make a difference.
I have the same firewall (Win built-in) and AV config (MS Security Essentials) I had with previous Opera 19 build and I can’t work it out.
I guess I’ll have to wait until the next build to see what happens. I hope it gets better, I want to keep using Opera.
Greetings!

Leonardo Gomes

Do you use any extension? If so, have you tested with it disabled?

Also check with a clean profile.

Juan

Tried all with no luck, mate.
Downloading 20.0.1387.30 now to test.
Thanks!

Margarida Ascenço

Well, I give up and came back to the 18 version. Opera is the best browsers but in the last two years there are many problems. In 19 version the pages sometimes don’t open